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Andrea Jones

Scottish photographer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ4755131 ↗
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Andrea Jones is a garden, plant and landscape photographer. She photographs internationally for magazines, newspapers and book publishers, and on commission for landscape architects, garden designers and private clients.

Based in Scotland, she runs two photographic libraries Garden Exposures Photo Library and Plantation Totally Tree Photo Library.

Work

Jones has built up a reputation for her photographs of landscape architecture, garden design and plants, with the latter being the subject of her solo book Plantworlds (2005), published by Damiani. She also fully illustrated Great Gardens of America (2009) written by Tim Richardson and published by Frances Lincoln. Her further solo books include the best selling The Garden Source (2018) published by 8books and the Garden Photography Workshop published by Timber Press, 2017.

Further books include; The Splendour of the Tree written by Noel Kingsbury, 2014, published by Frances Lincoln, At West Dean; The Creation of an Exemplary Garden, Quarto 2019, Essential Pruning Techniques written by Tony Kirkham, Timber Press, 2017.

Honours

Jones is a Fellow of the RSA.

Ambassador for The Roberto Burle Marx Foundation.

Jury panel member for the Chaumont sur Loire International Garden Festival, France, 2023, 2024 and 2025.

Jury panel member for the UK Society of Garden Designers annual awards, 2021 & 2022.

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